Hi,
Sorry for not posting sooner, but I had a couple hiccups along the way. One thing that I noticed while trying to test fit everything together was that I inadvertantly didn't have the tail planes lined up correctly with the engine cylinders. As such, I ended up cutting off the front of the main body and rotating it just a little to better align everythng. I guess I should have added some locater marks, pins or depressions into the parts before printing them to make alignment easier, but I guess that's now a lesson for future builds
Next, I inadvertantly set something ontop of the cart causing it to deform. Usually when fully cured the resin that I am using is kind of a little brittle and would ususally snap rather than flex too much, but its possible that I didn't let the piece fully cure before priming it because it is still very "springy". Unfortunately although I was able to get the top rails of the cart mostly back to shape, the bottom bars around the edge of the cart never seemed to want to return to shape so I ended up cutting them off and replacing them with some styrene round bar that I had which was about the same diameter.
And finally, after I was able to clean the glass plate in my printer I decided to reprint my messed up wing rather than try and repair the original one. Overall it turned out pretty well, but I inadvertantly knocked it off where I set it, when I tripped over a computer cord and ended up breaking off one of the struts. I considered trying to just reprint the strut but noticed that the top edge of the exisiting one had broken along almost the exact same line as on my previously printed messed up wing. So I was able to cut the strut from my messed up wing and graft it to the new wing with a little trimming here and there to get a reasonalbe fit.
After that I went ahead and added some "rigging". I haven't really done much rigging on models before because I'm not reall good with trying to strectch sprue, but recently when I was at a local hobby shop I saw that they had styrene rod in both 0.5 and 0.25 mm thicknesses. So I have tried using that on this build. Since my build is about 1/25 scale, 1mm in real size equals about 1in in scale. As such, the 0.5mm rod scales out to about 0.5inches which may be a little big for metal wiring on a craft like this, but the 0.25mm rod (0.25 inch scale) just looked a little too "faint" and fragile when I tested it. So I am happy wih the 0.5mm stuff.
For now I need to continue to paint and clean up the parts but hope to soon start getting everything together. Though I still haven't fully decided on how to represent the wheels on the cart yet.
Pat
PS. The guy shown in the image above isn't for this build but since he is printed out to 1/25 scale I placed him in the photo to help give an indication of size for the model.
Everything is looking better now though.